Dr. Bernard Carroll, known as the "conscience of psychiatry," contributed to various blogs, including Margaret Soltan's University Diaries, for which he sometimes wrote limericks under the name Adam.
New York Times
George Washington University English professor Margaret Soltan writes a blog called University Diaries, in which she decries the Twilight Zone-ish state our holy land’s institutes of higher ed find themselves in these days.
The Electron Pencil
It’s [UD's] intellectual honesty that makes her blog required reading.
Professor Mondo
There's always something delightful and thought intriguing to be found at Margaret Soltan's no-holds-barred, firebrand tinged blog about university life.
AcademicPub
You can get your RDA of academic liars, cheats, and greedy frauds at University Diaries. All disciplines, plus athletics.
truffula, commenting at Historiann
Margaret Soltan at University Diaries blogs superbly and tirelessly about [university sports] corruption.
Dagblog
University Diaries. Hosted by Margaret Soltan, professor of English at George Washington University. Boy is she pissed — mostly about athletics and funding, the usual scandals — but also about distance learning and diploma mills. She likes poems too. And she sings.
Dissent: The Blog
[UD belittles] Mrs. Palin's degree in communications from the University of Idaho...
The Wall Street Journal
Professor Margaret Soltan, blogging at University Diaries... provide[s] an important voice that challenges the status quo.
Lee Skallerup Bessette, Inside Higher Education
[University Diaries offers] the kind of attention to detail in the use of language that makes reading worthwhile.
Sean Dorrance Kelly, Harvard University
Margaret Soltan's ire is a national treasure.
Roland Greene, Stanford University
The irrepressibly to-the-point Margaret Soltan...
Carlat Psychiatry Blog
Margaret Soltan, whose blog lords it over the rest of ours like a benevolent tyrant...
Perplexed with Narrow Passages
Margaret Soltan is no fan of college sports and her diatribes on the subject can be condescending and annoying. But she makes a good point here...
Outside the Beltway
From Margaret Soltan's excellent coverage of the Bernard Madoff scandal comes this tip...
Money Law
University Diaries offers a long-running, focused, and extremely effective critique of the university as we know it.
Anthony Grafton, American Historical Association
The inimitable Margaret Soltan is, as usual, worth reading. ...
Medical Humanities Blog
I awake this morning to find that the excellent Margaret Soltan has linked here and thereby singlehandedly given [this blog] its heaviest traffic...
Ducks and Drakes
As Margaret Soltan, one of the best academic bloggers, points out, pressure is mounting ...
The Bitch Girls
Many of us bloggers worry that we don’t post enough to keep people’s interest: Margaret Soltan posts every day, and I more or less thought she was the gold standard.
Tenured Radical
University Diaries by Margaret Soltan is one of the best windows onto US university life that I know.
Mary Beard, A Don's Life
[University Diaries offers] a broad sense of what's going on in education today, framed by a passionate and knowledgeable reporter.
More magazine, Canada
If deity were an elected office, I would quit my job to get her on the ballot.
Notes of a Neophyte
April 27th, 2012 at 9:29AM
I’m feeling Shakespearean this morning:
Romeo and Brandee
Much Ado About Zilch
Dick III
A Midsummer Night’s Zoning-Out
Love’s Labours Somewhere on My Desk
April 27th, 2012 at 9:48AM
Much Ado About Zilch is the winner.
April 27th, 2012 at 11:45AM
Ed-School Diaries?
April 27th, 2012 at 12:57PM
East of Ipswich
April 27th, 2012 at 3:46PM
I Married a Social Democrat
The Human Blotch
Portnoy’s Kvetch
Pink Noise (Also other color plays: i.e. “The Brownest Eye”)
Mao 3.0
Tangelos Are Not the Only Fruit
Man Who Almost Nobody Notices, But Isn’t Quite Invisible Because That’s Just Crazy
The Brief Wondrous Life of George Smith
Neverending Pun
In Search of Lost Time 🙂
April 27th, 2012 at 5:12PM
Joshua: Les Soltans are currently giggling. Winner, I think: I Married a Social Democrat. The best titles seem to me to follow the principle of profound dropping off, profound disappointment, in the final word, and that one’s a great example…
April 28th, 2012 at 6:44AM
Can I play, too?
Of Mice and Guys
The Angry Grapes
The Heart Hunts By Itself
The San Luis Rey Overpass
A Room with Windows
And, another take on Pasternak:
Zhivago, M.D.
April 28th, 2012 at 7:09AM
Why does Faulkner seem so particularly suitable to me here?
The Noise and the Fuss
As I Lay with a Hangnail
Biblical Allusion, Biblical Allusion!
April 28th, 2012 at 9:22AM
Shane: Biblical Allusion! – so fine.
April 28th, 2012 at 9:46AM
TAFKAU: I too played with Heart is a Lonely Hunter – the ripest titles seem to me the longish ones full of poignancy, just like that one… (So for instance a title I just came up with is Pale Horse, Pale Jockey.) But you came up with something much better than I was able to come up with.
April 28th, 2012 at 9:48AM
Alan: Fun! Didn’t know about that show.
April 28th, 2012 at 9:48AM
Jeremy: Yes indeed.
April 29th, 2012 at 3:16PM
My wife came up with For Whom the Bell Tinkles.
April 29th, 2012 at 4:48PM
adam: Excellent!
April 29th, 2012 at 10:00PM
Lady Chatterley’s Boyfriend
Sinners in the Hands of a Peeved God
The Red Badge of Curiosity
Tess of the Joneses
April 30th, 2012 at 1:08AM
Now I am in a John le Carré mode:
The Spy Who Came in From the Chill
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Snitch
The Little Drummer Co-Ed
The Stitcher of Panama
The Constant Horticulturalist
April 30th, 2012 at 3:21AM
John: Tess of the Joneses is pretty brilliant.
adam: My favorite is Constant Horticulturalist. And your list of five titles has me thinking we should make the game more challenging by trying to make limericks out of our titles…
April 30th, 2012 at 11:32AM
As for Ian Fleming:
On Her Majesty’s Secret Errand
Dr. Maybe
Goldtoe
Quantum of Cheer-up
Octomommy
April 30th, 2012 at 9:18PM
The Public Transportation Named Desire
April 30th, 2012 at 10:09PM
Sophie’s 6 to 5 Pick-em
May 1st, 2012 at 2:20AM
bobopp: This one took me a second to get. Very nice.
July 5th, 2013 at 8:21PM
This is great. You have to create a facebook group for this topic. I heard Geoffrey Robinson (QC for Julian Assange and ones of Australia’s eminent thinkers) mention this in a lecture:
http://youtu.be/OHJGhWeNSeA
July 5th, 2013 at 9:50PM
Andrew : I just watched and enjoyed the Robinson talk. Many thanks for the link.